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I'm really glad that they didn't go the Twitter route and develop something completely new.

One more for kicks:

    n = iter(array).next
    [(n(), n(), n()) for _ in xrange(len(array) / 3)]

Haha. I feel very silly now. I was just about to respond with the same thing.

    while True:
        result = list(islice(iterator, 3))
        if not result:
            break
        yield result

I was a bit wrong about that. For some reason I imagined that there would be quite a few args being passed to zip, when in fact there are just the three iterators. It does create a temporary list, but it's so small it's negligible. Using izip wouldn't really change anything.

I'd be surprised if my way is slower. Any time you unpack into a function such as zip() python has to create an intermediary list to store all the results before calling the function.

It's not brilliant.

This accomplishes the same thing without being hard to understand:

    from itertools import islice

    iterator = iter(array)
    try:
        while True:
           yield list(islice(iterator, 3))
    except StopIteration:
        pass

The difference is that bribery usually involves an upfront payment. Maybe people should start tipping before their meal.

That article is somewhat confusing. The issue isn't that Uber doesn't allow tips, it's that when a person does decide to tip , Uber takes 50% of it.

Here is a much better writeup: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4668504/uber-lawsuit-san-f...

I've used the app several times and I've never been prompted to enter a tip. Maybe it's a new feature?

Edit: After reading a few more sources I think the issue is that every fare has a built in 20% tip, but Uber takes half of it. Another source: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-drivers-open-lawsuit-ove...

There was something similar earlier this year with typing 'File:///' in a OSX text field.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/02/02/typing-these-eig...

Seems to crash the tab in Chrome 29 on OSX.

Given that it's not possible to set the default map app on IOS, I wonder how many of the people that "use Apple Maps weekly" did so by accident.

Hmm, I was unable to do so on Namecheap or Gandi.

Are there any registrars that allow one to set serverDeleteProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, and serverUpdateProhibited?

Woah! Has Verisign been hacked?

$ whois twitter.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.

TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM

TWITTER.COM

And then:

$ whois verisign.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.

VERISIGN.COM.MIGHT.SUCK.FYRAE.COM

VERISIGN.COM

I get really crazy responses like this for almost every major site I try (cnn.com, yahoo.com, google.com).

Sublime Text 2 & 3.

If you are using Android and DashClock[0] there is a flashlight App without any permissions called DashLight[1].

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roma...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spectrl.Da...

Here's a screenshot, the server seems to be overloaded.

http://i.imgur.com/1e5XzWc.png

If this violates law, then surely ignoring robots.txt also violates the law. In this case website owners should be able to sue Cyveillance (Comcast outsourced copyright enforcement to them). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyveillance

Newsflash, large cities have luxury stores that sell fancy things for lots of money. You'll find all the the examples also exist in any other large city.

I also read it as Meth at first.

They started posting their articles to Facebook while they were down. http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/14/4621324/new-york-times-pub...

I'm curious why you feel that the extension of Muni is a waste of funds. As the project is to extend it from Caltrain station through Powell and then on to China Town, do you think the entire thing a waste, or just the latter portion?

TLDR: Bloch doubts that the failure of the uniformity assumption means that cryptographic systems in wide use today are fundamentally insecure. “My guess is that it will show that some of them are slightly less secure than we had hoped, but usually in the process, we’ll also figure out a way of patching them.”

Imagine what happens when someone names their content folder 'assets' and it gets rewritten to 'a<star><star>ets'.

(edit: why does double * get escaped away on here.)

Qualify what you mean by poorer service. Just because the service is different doesn't mean that it's worse. I'd take a waitress that was curt and left after I'd placed my order over one that asks me if I need anything every 10 minutes.

Good point. I mistakenly thought that they were going to rewrite the email addresses in git commits, it appears that is not the case.

I don't hate them. I have no problem when they contact me through legitimate channels such as LinkedIn or StackOverflow. I even try to respond with a polite 'no' in most cases.

I have a problem with them abusing the git commit logs to get at my personal email as a way of manipulating me.

As someone who's had recruiters find my personal email via my GitHub commits, this is a welcome feature.

This is the best Hacker News Android app I've seen!

Would it be possible to have the refresh icon spin instead of that weird animation, or is that a result of it being a web app?

AFAIK Right now there are two things that Mozilla controls.

1) login.persona.org that takes care of authentication

2) a JavaScript shim that developers add to their sites to get the login button to work.

Persona is designed in such a way that reliance on Mozilla will be phased out as email providers take care of #1 and as browsers start to implement #2. As of now I think FireFox is the only browser that has #2 baked in.